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Word: Osmosis
Speech Type: Noun
mid 19th century: Latinized form of earlier osmose, from Greek ōsmos ‘a push’
ɒzˈməʊsɪs
a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.
Short Definition:process by which molecules of solvent tend to pass through semipermeable membrane from less concentrated solution into more concentrated
the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.
Short Definition:process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas
Examples:- by some strange political osmosis, private reputations became public
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